Smart phone users: Are they green users?

Abstract

Smart phones by now have overwhelmed the mobile phone market, to the point that it becomes increasingly difficult to find an "old-type", classical, feature phone. Although they offer a wealth of features and services to their users, they are far more power hungry, requiring to be charged almost daily! At the same time many interesting questions arise, in regards to their users: Are they aware of green practices? Do they follow them? In this work, using quantitative statistics and Fuzzy Decision Tree analysis we will present the preliminary findings from an empirical study among 313 users that was held in order to answer all these questions. We proposed a Fuzzy Decision Rules based on this data.

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“…However, some research works have been conducted to overcome and point out the limitations that must have to be addressed. In accordance with this, to overcome the limitations of 4G such as demands of end‐user, complexity in the network management, and unavailability of dynamic adoption of applications, a QoE‐aware Network Function Virtualization architecture (NFV) is proposed in the work of Barakabitze et al 64 Furthermore, Androulidakis et al 62 emphasized on highlighting the requirements necessary to provide to green hosts. These requirements include the manufacturing of products with extended battery life, providing opportunities for green education, use of renewable energy resources 65 so that hosts can experience quality.…”

“…Whereas, it is also a prime requisite to drive the attention of the users for efficient and effective use of green products because it is a human behavior that is considered as a root of a today's environmental challenges 60 . In this respect, some recent studies 61–63 discuss the importance of the green users while highlighting some green practices such as in the improvement of behavior in using products. Varela‐Candamio et al 63 defined key steps to bring the idea of green practice education into existence.…”